Monday, October 10, 2011

Learn to Write Another Language

Learning another language is generally hard. However, you begin to speak it as soon as you enter the classroom and look at the first page. This describes my experience with HTML (hyper text markup langauge) to a 't'.

While I have never worked with HTML before, I found the experience vaguely reminiscent of my first few french classes, where we covered “bonjour” and “je m'appelle”. These simple phrases were new to us and we couldn't help but awkwardly use them.

In the same respect, the opening and closing tags in an html document were also foreign to me. I used them awkwardly since I really don't completely understand the nuances of their meaning.

Going back to french class, we always had awareness that we had only just scratched the surface and that to learn french fluently would take a lot of time and practice. I believe that HTML is the same way. If I were to give it the time and practice, I could do some pretty cool things with it.

While I have about one day's worth of html coding experience under my belt, professional web designers who design pages like blogger have years and years of experience. Also, in my defense, for this project we had to work with the raw html code, whereas most professional designers these days use an editor to make the experience more visual. Even so, an editor is only an intermediate program between the designer and the code.

In short, the HTML code is like the force in the Star Wars movies. It is everywhere around us, it guides everything and everyone, and only jedi designers can tap into its true potential.
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